Home » Search Center » Results: Happy Hour
Results for "Happy Hour"
Matt Renzi: Presenza

by Dan McClenaghan
On Presenza, reedmanMatt Renzi and his new quartet--the first one featuring a piano--opens with an audacious burst of sound. The tune, Loving Kindness," one of nine Renzi originals featured here, sounds as if the saxophonist and his quartet mates are serious about the subject, crafting a high-octane burner that takes no prisoners. Renzie tears it up, ...
Happy Hour

Label: Udoi Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Mr. Cool
That Certain Feeling
This One's for the Girls
Happy Hour
J Street Groove
Set Me Free
Carry Me Home
Big Sur
Feelin' da Funk
You Make Me Smile
Happy Hour

By Matt Renzi
Label: Three P's Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: VP; On Three; Canonica; seven Days; Banshee Dance; Track 28; Cycloptical; Snipets; Noodle Town.
Matt Renzi: Happy Hour

by Dan McClenaghan
Reedman Matt Renzi's Happy Hour is curiously titled, given the music at hand. A Happy Hour" brings cheap drinks and cacophonous good times in the bar room to mind. The CD of that name opens with a tranquil reverie, as mystical, inward-looking and spiritually directed as a late-period Impulse! John Coltrane rumination. The trio ...
Happy Hour

By Neal Miner
Label: Gut String Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Doghouse Blues; Lullaby of the Leaves; Serenade in Blue; Boilermaker; At the Bistro; Bye, Bye, Baby; The Changing Scene; Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea; Marmaduke; Happy Hour.
Neal Miner: Happy Hour

by David A. Orthmann
A thirty-two measure intro to Bye, Bye, Baby" typifies the traits which animate Happy Hour, bassist Neal Miner's recent release on his Gut String Records imprint. After drummer Joe Strasser's snapping fingers establish a firm, uncluttered pulse, pianist Michael Kanan and Miner play a single chorus of eight-, four-, two- and one-bar exchanges. Their flawless execution ...